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Well I haven't made a post here in quite some time. The whole thing with Jeff caused my beloved forum The Virtual Underground to displace! What was once hosted here at Gamespot is now found at www.thevirtualunderground.net

If you are looking for somewhere to talk about video games (and off-topic) with some great guys and girls then give it a look.

As well as that I have a new blog, and that blog is hosted HERE. At the new VU home. I've already made two vlogs.

All said, I'm not planning on leaving Gamespot in its entirety, there are people here whos blogs I'll still read and there might be posts I feel like responding to on the forums.

As for my blog here....I'm not sure - maybe I'll just link back to my new one whenever I make a new post. Anyhow for anyone who enjoyed my last video blog, come check out my new ones.

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Hope everyone had a good new year.

Microsoft have announced another feature to be included with the upcoming "fall" dashboard update for the 360 (released on Dec 4th - not "fall" if you ask me). Alongside a parental timer and the ability to download original Xbox titles is "Friends of Friends". This will allow you to view friends of your friends through the dashboard.

Now I find that, with my list getting close to its limit, I become inundated with game invites, messages and other notifications every time I sign in. This can be extremely frustrating if I've sorted out a game with people already and when some send invites out to their entire list without checking if I have the game or not. This new feature sure isn't going to help with that.

There are also players that in the past have stalked me. It's really weird - I might play with someone once and then find them in the same lobby as me for the rest of the time. This thing sounds like it will be providing for that sort.

I also have people I don't get on with (namely racists) but have happened to play with them because they were a friend of a friend. I don't want those people to know when I'm online or whether they could join my game.

Luckily enough, this feature is not forced upon us - there are 3 options:

Everyone - anyone in friends list or those you recently played can access the info
Friends only - what it says
Blocked - self-explanatory and mandatory for under 13s

I know which one I'm going for - how about you?

One thing I would like to see included is a friend organiser - whereby the people you tend to play with most can be arranged at the top of your friends list so someone called Zeke doesn't need to be invited/messaged after a minute of scrolling downward.